Entry Requirement
- Diploma or Degree Holder
- Minimum 3 years working experience for Non-Degree or Non-Diploma candidates
Payment Plan
- 1 Time Payment (5% Discount) = 285 USD
- 2 Times Payment = 150 + 150 USD
Potential Candidates
- MDs and CEOs
- Directors
- Business Owner
- General Manager
- Finance Manager
- Finance Officers
Professional Diploma in Strategic Financial Management (Awarded by London Business University)
Objectives
This Program is designed to provide students to achieve the following goals:
- Understand and apply Finance knowledge to build skills and achieve best customer outcomes
- Analyze skills in daily operations and nature of financial environment
- Increase career opportunities in financial sectors and understand the financial markets
- Enhance knowledge and competencies required in stock share markets and financial services
Course Delivery Mode
- LBU COP &
- LBU International
Credit
- 10 Credits
Modules
- The world of financial management
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- The finance function
- Structure of the book
- Modern financial management
- Why do businesses exist?
- Balancing risk and return
- Behaving ethically
- Protecting shareholders’ interests
- Shareholder involvement
- Financial planning
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Planning for the future
- The role of projected financial statements
- Preparing projected financial statements
- Preparing the projected statements: a worked example
- Projected cash flow statement
- Projected income statement
- Projected statement of financial position (balance sheet)
- Projected financial statements and decision making
- Per-cent-of-sales method
- Long-term cash flow projections
- Taking account of risk
- Analyzing and interpreting financial statements
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Financial ratios
- Financial ratio classifications
- The need for comparison
- Calculating the ratios
- A brief overview
- Profitability
- Efficiency
- Relationship between profitability and efficiency
- Liquidity
- Financial gearing
- Investment ratios
- Financial ratios and the problem of overtrading
- Trend analysis
- Using ratios to predict financial failure
- Limitations of ratio analysis
- Making capital investment decisions
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- The nature of investment decisions
- Investment appraisal methods
- Accounting rate of return (ARR)
- Payback period (PP)
- Net present value (NPV)
- Why NPV is better
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Some practical points
- Investment appraisal in practice
- Investment appraisal and strategic planning
- The investment appraisal process
- Investment decisions and human behaviour
- Making capital investment decisions: further issues
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Investment decisions when funds are limited
- Comparing projects with unequal lives
- The ability to delay
- The problem of inflation
- The problem of risk
- Sensitivity analysis
- Scenario analysis
- Simulations
- Risk preferences of investors
- Risk-adjusted discount rate
- Expected net present value
- Event tree diagrams
- Risk and the standard deviation
- The standard deviation and the normal distribution
- The expected value–standard deviation rule
- Measuring probabilities
- The limits of probability analysis
- Portfolio effects and risk reduction
- Financing a business 1: sources of finance
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Sources of finance
- External sources of finance
- External sources of long-term finance
- External sources of short-term finance
- Long-term versus short-term borrowing
- Internal sources of finance
- Internal sources of long-term finance
- Internal sources of short-term finance
- Financing a business 2: raising long-term finance
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- The Stock Exchange
- Stock market efficiency
- Are the stock markets really efficient?
- Share issues
- Long-term finance for the smaller business
- Business angels
- Government assistance
- The Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
- Amazon.com: a case history
- The cost of capital and the capital structure decision
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Cost of capital
- Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Specific or average cost of capital?
- Limitations of the WACC approach
- Cost of capital – some evidence
- Financial gearing
- Degree of financial gearing
- Gearing and capital structure decisions
- Constructing a PBIT–EPS indifference chart
- What determines the level of gearing?
- The capital structure debate
- Making distributions to shareholders
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Paying dividends
- Dividend distributions in practice
- Dividend policy and shareholder wealth
- The importance of dividends
- Factors determining the level of dividends
- Dividend policy and management attitudes: some evidence
- Dividend smoothing in practice
- What should managers do?
- Alternatives to cash dividends
- Managing working capital
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- What is working capital?
- The scale of working capital
- Managing inventories
- Inventories management models
- Managing trade receivables
- Managing cash
- Managing trade payables
- Measuring and managing for shareholder value
- Introduction 455
- Learning outcomes 455
- The quest for shareholder value 456
- Creating shareholder value 456
- The need for new forms of measurement 457
- Net present value (NPV) analysis 459
- Managing the business with shareholder value analysis
- Implications of SVA
- Economic value added (EVA®)
- Eva®-based ratios
- EVA® in practice
- EVA® and SVA compared
- EVA® or SVA?
- Market value added (MVA)
- The link between MVA and EVA®
- Limitations of MVA
- Total shareholder return
- Criticisms of the shareholder value approach
- Measuring the value of future growth
- Implementing the shareholder value approach
- Directors’ share options and shareholder value
- Business mergers and share valuation
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Mergers and takeovers
- Merger and takeover activity
- The rationale for mergers
- Wealth-enhancing motives for mergers
- Other motives for mergers
- Forms of purchase consideration
- Mergers and financial performance
- Who benefits?
- The merger puzzle
- Ingredients for successful mergers
- Rejecting a takeover bid
- Restructuring a business: divestments and demergers
- The valuation of shares
- Choosing a valuation model
Assessment Type
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- Examination (via Online)
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Academic Progression to MBA Programs
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- Professional Diploma Students will have their credits (10) and fee (paid) carried to any MBA (or) MPM Programs in London Business University with direct exemption of studied subjects.
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Student Benefits from LBU
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- Learn from Highly Experienced International Lecturers holding PhD Degrees.
- Internationally recognized for further studies and employment around the world.
- Study World Class UK, EU and Singapore Qualifications with flexible cost while stay-at-home without spending living expenses.
- Learn with Hybrid Virtual Classroom via online or classroom learning.
- 95 % of LBU Graduates are in Employment or Further Study within 6 months after successful Graduation.
- 96.5 % of UOC Graduates are in Employment or Further Study within 6 months after successful Graduation.
- Your visa will be considered as high priority after successful graduation from UoC Degree Programs (according to the rules and policy of the UK government).
- Students may attend Graduation Ceremony in UK, EU or Relevant Countries according to their Degrees (expense incurred by the student).
- Eligible students are able to apply for MRCCI Membership, BCCM Membership and CPD Hours from MEC.
- Student can purchase Exclusive British Chamber of Commerce Student Package and can register for General Assessment Record for promoting career opportunities. (Application Fees may apply)
- LBU will provide students with Official Private emails with LBU education domain (example – steve.student@lbu.edu.mm), so that students can study with full privacy and can access Global Education Benefits by using LBU education email.
- LBU students will have license version access to 26 Microsoft Applications including word, power point, excel, project, etc., powered by Microsoft.
- LBU will provide students Cloud Storage start from 50 GB to 5000 GB based on individual need for educational purposes.
- Access to LBU E-Library.
- Flexible & Secure Payment via Visa, Master Cards and Bank Transfer.
- Professional Diploma Students will have their credit and fee carried to MBA Programs with direct exemption of studied subjects.
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Intakes
LBU COP – Enroll Now and Study Immediately.
LBU International – Please contact school for Start Dates.
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